NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 2389

34/7-16 R2

Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Saga Petroleum ASA · Vigdis · PL 089

34/7-16 R2 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Saga Petroleum ASA, entered Jun 23, 1994, to 2,979 m in the Lunde Fm.

Discovery 34/7-8 Vigdis · On the map →

2,979
m total depth · 2,977 m vertical
286
m water depth
Jun 23, 1994
entered · completed Jul 5, 1994
Lunde Fm
at total depth · Late Triassic
—
m of core
—
°C bottom-hole temperature

SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED JUL 5, 1996

On file for this wellbore

What the Directorate holds from this wellbore. Each opens the section that lists it.

Drilling

Drilling facility
VILDKAT EXPLORER · Semisub steel
Drilling days
13
Kelly bushing elevation
25 m
Maximum inclination
5.30000019°
Drilling permit
640-L3
Licensing round
8
Plugged and abandoned
Jul 5, 1994
Core samples available
No
Cuttings samples available
No
Position · ED50
61.38696° N, 2.11642° E
Hydrocarbons in
Etive Fm · Middle Jurassic
Hydrocarbons in
Rannoch Fm · Middle Jurassic

Well history

WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE

General

Well 34/7-16 R2 is located between the Statfjord and Snorre Fields on Tampen Spur in the Northern North Sea. It is a re-entry of well 34/7-16 R, which tested oil in the Brent Group and water in the Statfjord Formation. The purpose of the re-entry was plugging and permanent abandonment.

Operations and results

Well 34/7-16 R was re-entered (34/7-16 R2) with the semi-submersible installation Vildkat Explorer on 23 June 1994.

The well was plugged and permanently abandoned on 5 July 1994.

Testing

No drill stem test was performed.

Around this wellbore

This wellbore on Sodir FactPages →

About this data

Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sodir) FactPages, mirrored nightly and used under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). Depths are metres along the wellbore from the kelly bushing unless a row gives its own unit; older cores are filed in feet. A zero the Directorate files for an unmeasured pressure, density, or temperature is shown as a dash.

Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/norway/wells/2389, documented in the API reference.